[1999-08-09-WWF-Raw] Steve Austin Attacked!

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

The mysterious cinderblock falls on Austin's head, which was never explained. Michael Cole is awfully cheerful considering the situation. HHH showed up and played dumb as Austin was being carted off, but some people thought the idea here was to set up a feud between Austin and Jericho down the line.

[soup23]

We learn that Austin was attacked. HHH is shocked and asks what happened.

[PeteF3]

Austin's out of the main event, in all likelihood, and oh boy, it's the start of the most convoluted #1-contendership process in the history of wrestling booking. I'll miss Jesse's return to color commentary on this set but I won't miss the stuff involving Chyna being in line to get the title shot at SummerSlam or the repeated top-contender matches next week. Triple H shows up and plays dumb but in kind of a smug-bad-acting way which shows that he did it.